New York, December 27, 2013--The Committee to Protect
Journalists today called for the immediate release of an Indian journalist and
filmmaker who was arrested in Sri Lanka on Wednesday while allegedly filming
and photographing a military base.

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Bangkok, December 20, 2013--A Burmese journalist was
sentenced to three months in prison on Tuesday on charges of defamation,
trespassing, and "using abusive language," according to local news reports. The
Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the conviction and calls on
the court to reverse the verdict on appeal.

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Bangkok, December 20, 2013--The Royal Thai Navy should immediately
drop the criminal defamation charges lodged on Wednesday against two
journalists in connection with a report on alleged military abuses of ethnic
Rohingya people, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

For the second consecutive year, Turkey was the world’s
leading jailer of journalists, followed closely by Iran and China. The number
of journalists in prison globally decreased from a year earlier but remains
close to historical highs. A CPJ special
report by Elana Beiser

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For the second time this year, the U.N. Security Council took up the issue of protection of journalists. In a discussion today sponsored by the French and Guatemalan delegations, and open to NGOs, speaker after speaker and country after country hammered home the same essential facts: The vast majority of journalists murdered around the world are local reporters working in their own country, covering human rights, corruption, conflict and politics. In nine out of ten of these murders, no one is ever prosecuted.

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Everyone agreed at the panel discussion I took part in yesterday in Washington that the fate of about two dozen journalists working for The New York Times and Bloomberg News in China is unresolved. No one knows what will happen by the ostensible deadline of midnight, December 31, 2013, for their expulsion. I say ostensible, because maybe the deadline can be extended under some arcane rule known only to China's immigration officials. For now, those journalists are dangling in what has come to be called "visa purgatory," a term attributed to me but which really came from one of those journalists in purgatory, that is to say, waiting in Beijing for his visa to be renewed, with whom I spoke recently.

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Bangkok,
December 12, 2013--A radio reporter was shot dead in the Philippines on
Wednesday, marking the third journalist to be killed in the past two weeks in
the country. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities to
uphold the rule of law and bring an end to the killing spree of journalists that
is under way across the country.

New
York, December 10, 2013--Indian authorities must conduct a swift and efficient
investigation into the murder of a veteran journalist on Friday, and ensure the
perpetrators are held responsible, the Committee to Protect Journalists said
today.